Ani Raven Haines and Lyn Moelich turn their attentions once more to the War on Women- this time looking at the case in point of Gamergate.

The online gaming world is notoriously male dominated- and when women our speaking out to change this bastion of sexism, they have been targeted by vicious online harassment and retaliatory threats. Anita Sarkeesian was forced to cancel a speech at Utah State University last week after the school received an email threatening to carry out "the deadliest shooting in American history" at the event. The email sender wrote: "feminists have ruined my life and I will have my revenge."

Join old friends renowned Rumi ( the thirteenth century Sufi mystic and poet) author, scholar Coleman Barks and author, mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade as they talk to old friends Ani and Lyn about their upcoming event Soul Fury: AnEvening of Ecstatic Poetry for Passionate Friends and Fearless Lovers.Soul Fury is Coleman's latest book about "Rumi and Sahms Tabriz on friendship". It's always fun, brilliant and deep when we talk to Michael Meade , adding Coleman Barks to the mix .... well, it kind of just gives us goose bumps.

Hosts Ani and Lyn welcome feminist poet, essayist and criticKatha Pollitt, best known for her bimonthly column "Subject to Debate" in The Nation magazine. They'll discuss her new book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, Katha Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a woman’s reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. Pollitt takes on the “personhood” argument, reaffirms the priority of a woman’s life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for social good.

We are delighted to welcome Barbara Ford back to Positively Revolting, as she's just returned home from the People's Climate March in NYC. She'll share her experiences of this historic event as one of the over 400,000 marchers.

Barbara is a local activist, deep ecologist, artist and musician. She has just released a CD called Blue Earth, and is looking forward to a release party on Sunday.

We'll talk about The People's Climate Train, the NYC People's Climate March, Flood Wall Street, and how music is a healing force in our lives and in the movement.

Ani and Lyn explore this new phase of the War Without End, as declared this week. Orwell is spinning at 33 1/3. What does it mean to be in a perpetual war? How do we break this cycle? KBOO's Theresa Mitchell sits in for this discussion.

In the final chapter of Get To Know Your Candidates,Today Ani and Lyn invite candidatesMelissa Parsons and Benjamin Magoun to talk about what they have to offer as candidates.Listeners (particularly KBOO members) are encouraged to phone in with thier questions for the candidates.
Written Statements from all this years candidates can be found at http://kboo.fm/boardcandidates'staements2014
Ballots must be recieved by mail no later than Thursday September 18th, or delived in person at the Annual Meeting of the KBOO Foundation Membership, at the Lotus Seed, 6 NE Tillamook, by 2:00pm Saturday, September 20th.

We'll be ranting, discussing and sharing the latest news about the continuing home front war — the war we're not supposed to notice, the war the patriarchy thinks is for our own good — THE WAR ON WOMEN! Dear listeners, please call in with your wartime experiences and thoughts on how to reject these egregious affronts to our lives, lively hoods and dignity

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Ani welcomes back long time activist, author and professor Robert Jensen, to Positively Revolting Talk Radio.

In Jensen's latest book, All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, he argues that in a world racked with political, economic, cultural, and ecological crises, there is a spiritual emptiness that encourages further alienation.

Can religion be a tool with which we may create closer ties to all humanity and begin to create a just and sustainable society? What part can religion play to help us face with confidence the uncertainty of our lives. How can we overcome our addiction to hierarchy?

Jensen's writings explore the important questions: What does it mean to be human? What are our obligations to other people and the non-human world?

Robert Jensen is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism, where he teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics. Jensen also serves as the director of the university’s Senior Fellows Honors Program of the College of Communication. Since joining the UT faculty in 1992, Jensen has published four critical books on media and power: Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007); The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004).

A special Talk Radio celebrating May Day, the International Workers' Holiday. The host is Joe Uris. Tune in and call in with your take on May Day! Joe's guests are members of the local group, General Strike. Since 1987 General Strike has played on picket lines, at union rallies and conventions and at other socially progressive gatherings or protests. r

Melinda Bernert guest hosts. The topic is "Portland's New Soccer Stadium. Who's left holding the ball?" The guest is Jules Boykoff, assistant professor at Pacific University. He has written articles on the issue including "My Own Private Bail-out" for the The Guardian.

Hosts Melodie Silverwolf and Crystal Leighty speak with Bianca Barth, Policy Officer for the World Future Council, who is in Portland to promote the efforts of Oregonians for Renewable Energy Payments. Barth is supporting locally sponsored state legislation to adopt the German model for quickly advancing renewable energy production.

Bianca Barth regularly hosts legislators from around the world, leading tours to demonstrate Germany's success at deploying solar, wind and other renewables in urban and rural settings across the country. She has first-hand knowledge of how Germany has used feed-in tariffs to exceed its Kyoto goals for carbon emissions.

I am a daily KBOO listener; however, while todays speaker while speaking from the heart regarding her dismay over the Afganistan theater of war, she makes vague statements, with great emotion, but few references to facts, which could easily be woven into her statements to make them more illuminating, it would give more power to her rally cries. Tt feels as though I am simply listening to hyperbole LIKE ON CREEPY FOX NEWS! The Hosts of the program, similarly, are never probing or asking for clarification of the important issue, an important question to probe is: "why ARE we there?". This program is dithering, and the speaker is bland, unconvincing of any knowledge base, boring, 10th rate. Additionally, this is typical of the "Positively Revolting" hour, I usually never tune in when I know these two hosts will be on, bcs. it is never a provoking program, it rarely reveals or provides any new information about anything. If this program has to continue to be on at all, consider putting it on late at night....it is pablum.

Good Sista' Bad Sista' on the other hand was a great relief for me on Friday morning's programing, those women are sharp, witty and smart.

Do not dumb us down with this progam "Positively Revolting", it is a zero.

I recently heard the argument that the pay differential between men and women is actually fair. This idea is based on the situation of women living longer than men but work the same period of time. This argument claims that the total difference of pay between men and women equals the cost of additional medical care spent for women in their senior years.

For example, let's say a man and a woman work the same number of years (about 40), in the same job with the same responsibilities, and the man makes 10% more than the woman. Say that the job pays (in constant dollars) an average of $30,000 over the forty years. The man makes $1.2 million over this period and the woman makes $1.08 million.

The difference is $120,000. Now at age 60, a man will generally live to be 75 and a woman will live to be 85. Most medical expenses are incurred in the last ten years of live. These costs are paid mostly by public funds through MediCare. The pay_inequality_is_fair argument holds that this $120,000 pay differential is used by society to pay the additional medical expenses that women use and men don't.

I realize that this argument will float like a lead zeppelin on the Positively Revolting community. However, you may want to be aware of it so you don't get blindsided by it in a public debate on the issue.

Hi there,
Melodie and I are hosting alternating weeks on Friday mornings, now. I hope you had a chance to hear my program with Norman Solomon last Friday, 11/7, but if you didn't, you can hear it online-- there is a link to the audio on this program page.
I will host again on the 21st.
Thanks so much for listening!
with love & solidarity,
ani

I must have picked a good week to start listening to KBOO. My unhealthy addiction to KPOJ has been shaken. What stirred me to radio hop was the recent clubbing and scrubbing of morning show co-host Heidi Tauber.

Thankfully (along with news I'm not hearing elsewhere) I struck gold with back to back to back mornings of call in shows which were right up my avenue. On Wednesday Barbara Bernstein and friends of the 40 Mile Loop took me on a bike ride down memory lane. The next day, Dave and Jo Ann took on the very difficult but extremely important topic of race and justice in America. I found the candor of the hosts and callers-in to be a much needed breath of fresh air.

Yesterday was quite synergenic. I didn't think anything Positively Revolting would be my pint of brew, but the community of thought that came together was positively revolutionary. I'm still not entirely successful in finding joy amidst the madness, but the range of emotions I was able to experience during the show were a welcome departure from depression. Together we just may succeed... or at least, survive.

KBOO, I think I love U. (And Jeff always has sumpin' to say to go along with that sexy voice! I'm glad he seems to hop around the dial too.)